IT STARTS KILLING YOU BEFORE YOU EVEN NOTICE IT

In 2002, the Arab terrorist known as IBN Al-hatab passed away unexpectedly in his home. The reported cause of his death was a heart attack, which may have been triggered by the unsettling contents of a routine letter. However, it is also possible that someone who was responsible for destructive acts like detonating residential buildings and shooting Red Cross workers could have succumbed to the excitement of their actions.

The personal belongings of the terrorist were searched, but no helpful information was found. The situation might have remained a mystery if it weren't for Sergey Yaster Shimsky, a talkative assistant to the Russian president, who revealed in a TV interview that the letter contained a special poison that was harmless to humans unless it came into contact with sweat. The contents of the letter were eerie and might have induced some sweat on the terrorist's palms, although not enough to cause a heart attack. The poison entered his body unnoticed and caused his death after a couple of days. The toxic substance responsible for his demise has never been identified. In this video, you'll discover the types of poison that can harm you without drawing any suspicion, such as a slight prick from a stranger in a crowd, an unusual odor in your favorite perfume, or slight color changes in your food.

Ike White, a foreign journalist for the New York Times, is in danger of losing his job. He is struggling to come up with an interesting topic for his article. In desperation, he decides to drink at a bar and unintentionally overhears the conversation at the next table. Initially, nothing seems unusual about the death of an elderly woman named Anna Buchanan, who passed away due to a stroke. However, White senses that there is something off about the story. Bar patrons mention that Anna had recently gotten married, which suggests that she was not seriously ill. Additionally, her bank account was quite substantial. White sees the death of such an influential woman as a potential topic for his new article.

The next day, White goes to the hospital to investigate further. However, the doctor insists that it was simply a stroke. Anna had exhibited symptoms such as slow breathing, rapid pulse, flushed face, and hot, dry skin during her last hours. When asked about the possible causes of the stroke, the doctor merely grins.

It was discovered that a few days prior to the incident, the doctor had diagnosed the victim with hysteria, which in the late 19th century was a common diagnosis that raised no concerns. The doctor was convinced that the woman was simply worried and prescribed her sodium bromide, a sedative to be taken every two hours. To ensure that she didn't miss a dose, her caring husband, Robert, a medical student, gave her the medicine with a spoon and gazed lovingly into her eyes until her last moments. Ike White left the hospital feeling frustrated because there wasn't enough material for his article. However, something still perplexed him: what could Anna Buchanan have been worried about?

White went back to the bar and encountered the same people who had spoken about Anna earlier. They knew Robert Buchanan, Anna's young husband, and claimed that she was worried because he had decided to divorce her and remarry his first wife. Moreover, the tipsy man asserted that immediately after the funeral, Robert withdrew money from Anna's account. This contradicted the nurse's story about a loving husband.

Ike White spent several days researching in the library, and eventually convinced the authorities to exhume Anna's body for re-examination. Soon, Robert Buchanan was put on trial for the alleged poisoning of his wife. Surprisingly, he appeared unfazed in the courtroom. Ike was still apprehensive, unsure whether his assumptions were correct. The autopsy revealed a high level of morphine in Anna's blood, but Robert was quick to defend himself. He argued that it could have been a case of veridical hallucination, and pointed out that his wife's pupils should have been constricted if it was indeed morphine poisoning. To prove his point, he had a cat injected with a large dose of morphine, and sarcastically remarked that the animal's pupils had constricted significantly. Ike then applied drops to the cat's eyes, which should have dilated the pupils if it was morphine. However, they remained constricted, confirming Ike's suspicions that Robert had planned to poison his wife with morphine all along, and that their marriage was a sham.

Buchanan used his medical knowledge to devise a plan to conceal the symptoms of morphine poisoning in Anna. He realized that morphine caused the pupils to narrow, which could reveal the poisoning. To prevent this, he used atropine, a drug made from Belladonna, which dilates the pupils. While both drugs had medicinal purposes, mixing them in large quantities could lead to a coma. Buchanan had access to both drugs in the student laboratory and checked Anna's eyes in the final moments to ensure his plan had worked. In the courtroom, the cat was injected with a mixture of morphine and atropine, which caused its death. However, its pupils remained dilated, proving Buchanan's guilt. Ike White not only had the material for his article but also helped to solve a serious crime. Buchanan was ultimately sentenced to death by the electric chair. Nowadays, concealing evidence of a crime is even more challenging, but some people still manage to do so.

In 2018, two students from different ethnic backgrounds, Yukai Yang of Chinese origin and Juwan Royale, an African-American, had the opportunity to study at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, which was predominantly attended by white children of wealthy officials and businessmen. Initially, the boys shared the same dorm room, but after a month, Royale began to feel ill. Believing it was due to his increased workload and studies, he didn't seek help, but his roommate Yang did what he could to assist him by running errands and submitting Royale's homework to the teachers. Over time, Royale's condition appeared to improve, but one night he returned to their room to find that many of his personal belongings had been damaged and defaced with racist statements and threats. When Yang returned, he advised Royale to report the incident to the police, but the authorities seemed reluctant to get involved since racist remarks were common on campus, especially among the children of the wealthy. As the bullying escalated, Royale's symptoms worsened, and he began to experience burning sensations in his mouth, dizziness, tremors, and vomiting, which were not consistent with a common cold. At this point, Yang assumed it was an allergy, but when Royale's mental state became confused and he began to foam at the mouth, the student became concerned that he might choke on his own saliva.

Braille was taken to the infirmary in a weakened state, and he called the police again. This time, the police arrived and conducted a search, but they found nothing. However, one of the officers noticed something suspicious in Royal's food. The color of some products seemed off to him, so the young detective took some of the food for examination. They found a huge amount of poison in it. Thallium is a soft, odorless, and tasteless metal that was initially used as rat poison. However, due to its high toxicity to humans, the production of such zoocides was banned. Thallium can also be found in some thermometers, as its physical properties allow you to measure temperatures below minus 60 degrees Celsius. Nowadays, it mostly appears in criminal cases of poisoning people. In addition to the symptoms observed in Royale, thallium can also cause hair loss, nail distortion, and even coma. Suspicions immediately fell on the Brotherhood of the White, a gang of local officials' children. An attempt to catch the hooligans only confirmed the police's suspicions, as the guys ran away from the police and looked extremely nervous upon their arrest. They were quick to admit to bullying black students, but the case was closed. Yet, something still seemed off to the young police officer. Further questioning revealed that the bullies knew nothing about the poison.

To keep the investigation going, the police decided to interview another person. To avoid upsetting influential parents, they called Royale's neighbor to the station. However, this coincidence played a crucial role. Receipts were discovered on Yang's computer indicating that he had purchased large amounts of thallium. It turned out that Yang had been harboring ill feelings towards Royale for quite some time, and his kindness had been a facade. He had bought the thallium not for Royale but for himself, planning to commit suicide if he failed his chemistry exam. A week before the exam, he began adding poison to their shared food. Fortunately, the exam went well, but Yang continued to add thallium to their food since he had spent his entire scholarship on the poison. He also left racist remarks in their room to confuse the police during the trial. Yang expressed regret for his actions, but he was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Juan Royale still suffers from the effects of the poisoning, but some victims are even less fortunate.

In 1994, the Fort Worth Police Department in Texas received a bizarre phone call requesting the exhumation of Stephen Robard's body, who had died a year prior of a heart attack. The caller demanded a re-examination of the body, and while this was not the first such call, the officers had no choice but to comply. However, it was not until four months later that the results came back - barium acetate was found in Robard's body. Although this substance is commonly used in the textile industry, it is extremely toxic when ingested, causing muscle paralysis, cardiac arrhythmia, labored breathing, and death. It was clear that Stephen Robard had been poisoned, and the police would have never known about it if not for a device that had recently arrived at the local laboratory.

Over a year before Stephen Robard's death, in February of 1993, his 17-year-old daughter Marie had banged on her neighbor's door, gasping out that her dad was sick. When the neighbor rushed to the apartment, she found Robard unconscious on the couch, foam coming out of his mouth. Though he was conscious, his throat was so swollen that paramedics could not insert an oxygen tube. Stephen Robard died that night.

Stephen Robard had lived alone for a long time after his divorce, but when his daughter came to live with him, he seemed to cheer up considerably. However, when Marie's mother announced her engagement to a military man named Frank Burrows, Stephen became increasingly agitated. Beth, Robard's ex-wife, had been involved in arguments with him even after the divorce, and her new engagement seemed to be the final straw. Suspicions naturally fell on Frank Burrows, who had access to poisons due to his military service. The police had reason to believe that Burrows was responsible for Stephen Robard's death and arrested him for the crime, sentencing him to a long-term prison sentence.

In 1994, ten months after Stephen Robards' death, Marie Robard stayed late after class with her friend Stacy High in the Mansfield suburb of Fort Worth to do their literature homework. The girls were role-playing a scene from Shakespeare's Hamlet when Marie suddenly burst into tears. She confided in Stacy that she had done something terrible - she had long wanted to live with her mother, but her strict stepfather had forbidden it. After Marie suspected him of having a lover, she stole barium acetate from her chemistry teacher, and it was this poison that she gave to her father. Stacy hesitated to turn in her friend for a long time, but a few months later, she finally called the police.

In 1994, 10 months after the death of Stephen Robards, Marie Robard stayed after class to do literature homework with her friend Stacey High. The girls were role-playing a fragment from Shakespeare's Hamlet when Marie suddenly burst into tears and confessed to having done something terrible. She revealed that she had stolen barium acetate from a chemistry teacher and given it to her father, who she longed to escape from. Her stepfather was strict and forbade Marie from returning home after she suspected he had a lover. Marie claimed that she only wanted her father to be sick for a couple of days and didn't know about the lethality of the poison. At the trial, she repeated this defense but was sentenced to 28 years in prison.

On March 4th, 2018, an elderly resident of Salisbury, UK, went for a walk with his daughter, only to be found convulsing and foaming at the mouth four hours later. They were taken to the hospital in critical condition, and a state of emergency was declared in Salisbury. Health authorities tested residents for strange symptoms and advised them to limit their movement around the city. Doctors who treated the father and daughter also ended up in intensive care, and the family's house was blocked off and stripped of its roof to completely clean out everything. The experts suggested that the family was poisoned by a most dangerous substance, and there could be many more victims. At the same time, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgis were hospitalized after suffering from unbearable headaches, nausea, and loss of consciousness. Doctors initially thought they had poisoned themselves with low-quality heroin, but it was later revealed that they were exposed to the same poison as the father and daughter. The investigation could not find the source of the toxic substance for a long time until experts checked the doorknob, and it soon became apparent that the victims were not ordinary residents of a small English town.

Sergey Skripal, a 66-year-old former Russian spy, and his daughter Yulia, who also worked in the Russian intelligence service, were accused of working for British intelligence while in Russia. In 2010, Skripal was sent to the UK as part of a spy exchange after being granted official amnesty. However, he was still persecuted by the Russian government. The poison that was used on Skripal and his daughter was administered by a Russian agent named Denis Sergeyev, who was in London under a fake name. A phone with an unregistered SIM card, containing only one Russian number in its call history, was found among Sergeyev's belongings. The type of poison used, called novichok, was first mentioned in 1992 by one of its creators, Vilmer Zionov. However, Zionov was accused of disclosing state secrets, and little was known about the substance. Novichok strongly affects the entire nervous system, and the victim can only be saved within the first few hours of being poisoned. The changes to the brain become irreversible afterward. Despite Skripal's and Yulia's recovery, they are unlikely to return to their former lives. They moved to New Zealand and changed their names after a month of hospitalization. Unfortunately, Dawn Sturgis, the partner of Charles Rowley, another victim of the poison, died without recovering from the coma. The Russian government denies any involvement in the attack. The poisoning of spies can be much more complicated, sometimes leading to fatal consequences.

Giorgi Markov, a Bulgarian dissident, was crossing London's Waterloo Bridge in 1978 when he felt a slight prick on his leg. He realized that a stranger had accidentally hit him with an umbrella. Later, Markov developed a fever, and in a couple of days, he died. The public discovered that it was a poisoning, and shortly before, another Bulgarian dissident, Vladimir Kostov, had a similar experience. Fortunately, Kostov's life was saved due to his thick woolen coat, which prevented a capsule filled with poison from piercing his skin. Both assassination attempts were carried out by KGB agents using a modified umbrella equipped with a mechanism capable of launching a tiny capsule containing a toxic substance called ricin. Ricin is synthesized from castor bean seeds and causes stomach bleeding and inevitable death upon entering the body. Finding a secret agent with an umbrella weapon in a crowd is almost impossible, making it a perfect covert assassination method. Today, this story has become history, and a replica of that deadly umbrella was recently exhibited at an auction in Paris.

However, the question remains, how many more unexpected heart attacks were actually murders, and what other secret poisons are still unknown to the public, held by special services?

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